Your Favoriting Habits Will Be Made Public on New Twitter

We’re all quite used to Web redesigns at this point. We basically expect that Facebook will undergo a makeover every six months or so, like a pop star who re-invents her look for each new album promo cycle. Some of these overhauls are mostly cosmetic and, while perhaps briefly irritating (oh, that button’s there now . . .), they are ultimately harmless. Occasionally, though, Gmail will completely change how e-mails are composed, or Instagram will add a slew of new filters, and you will want to scream—or, at the very least, tweet multiple crying cat face emoji.

Today, Twitter is debuting new profiles—and they look very different! The new layout more closely resembles a Facebook profile, as users will be able to upload a header photo (ostensibly the same as a Facebook cover photo), as well as a larger profile picture. You’ll be able to “pin” tweets to the top of your page, meaning you’ll never have to worry again about your winning Anne Hathaway joke that you tweeted at 11:49 P.M. on a Friday getting overlooked. Additionally, your “best tweets” (i.e., the ones that receive the most RTs and faves) will appear larger on your timeline.

But perhaps the most seismic shift here is that your Twitter profile will now reveal how many tweets you’ve favorited, a number that was not previously visible on profiles. As we live in an age of rampant fave-ing and liking and double-tapping, it’s quite likely most people’s “fave numbers” will be in the hundreds or thousands, but it will perhaps change the “vibe” of a fave, as when your scruffy co-worker whom you kind of have a crush on faves your weather-related tweet and therefore must think you’re ridiuclously funny and interesting because he went out of his way to click that “fave” button (and, like, 35 seconds after you tweeted it, too!) . . . now, you’ll be able to see, baldly, that your tweet is just one of literally 82,000 others he has faved.

Josh DuboffJosh Duboff is a VF.com staff writer, based in New York, who covers entertainment and culture.